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I finally obtained a high performance laptop and I'd like to get it right here the first time. I'm probably capable of getting Logos 5 up and running on a Windows 8 SSD. But some of the advanced configuration are beyond my current knowledge level. Logos partitions. OS partitions. It's all much like Greek to me.

Where can I get the education I need to have a hot-rodded Logos 5 setup? How many partitions should I have on my 240GB SSD? Of what size should they be? Microsoft Office is the only other big app I'll be running on the machine.

Did the laptop come with an O.S. pre-installed, and an existing partition and file system configuration? If so, what is it?

The laptop I just got came with 2 physical drives (both SSD) combined into a single RAID logical drive partitioned into separate C: and D:. I've left it like that and installed Logos into D:\Other Programs\Logos5. Given the physical inaccessibility of the drives in this laptop (Ultrabook), that seems to be a decent balance.

Where can I get the education I need to have a hot-rodded Logos 5 setup? How many partitions should I have on my 240GB SSD? Of what size should they be?

See this Windows link for partitioning your SSD. If you have only a C: drive follow the link for shrinking a partition. Mqke C: ("Total size after shrink") about 100 GB. You only need 2 partitions (C: and D:).

Michael Anda:

Microsoft Office is the only other big app I'll be running on the machine.

Put MS Office on the C: drive as normal. Do a Custom install of Logos and specify the D: drive as its location (it will actually install it at D:\Logos5).

The stock laptop drive is a 1 TB HDD. This is the drive I want to replace with a 240 GB SSD.

Then you are going to rely on the Clone software that came with the SSD to get the HDD onto the SSD with automatically shrunk drives and then physically replace the HDD with the SSD in the laptop. This is very demanding, technically and if you don't have the cloning software you will have to research the topic on the Internet and also create a Windows Repair Disk if the SSD is not recognised as a boot disk!

Looks like Partition 4 is where my C: Windows contents will go. Partition 5 is where the D: RECOVERY contents will land. I'm assuming Partitions 1, 2, and 3 are reserved for some system function. Changing 4 and 5 has proved to be easy.

I didn't create a repair disk. Should this happen before I swap drives? I will, of course, have the RECOVERY volume in two places when finished. The original HDD will have a copy and the new SSD will have the cloned copy on Partition 5.